Progress of Present Truth
By Jesse Dorcas
DEAR BRO. WHITE:—Having a desire to contribute my mite toward the advancement of this glorious work of repairing the breach in the covenant of our God, I drop you these few lines; thinking that it might not be uninteresting to some, especially to those who have some acquaintance with the friends here. For my own part, for the last three Sabbaths I have been keeping them at home, by examining carefully by the Bible, the doctrines taught in the Review, and in Bro. Storr's sermons: and I frankly acknowledge that it is a matter of astonishment to me that we have been so long in the dark. I have, for about ten years been as it were, dreaming that there might be a better way; but never, till Bro. Bates came has a door been fully opened so that I could escape from Babylon. On the east side of the Sandusky river, the work is progressing: on this, there is such a heavy, foggy atmosphere that the present truth moves heavily, yet we are encouraged to believe that the leaven is working, and that much good will be done. Notwithstanding all manner of contempt is heaped upon the few who have had moral courage to step aside from the old beaten path of popular error, yet my constant prayer is, that the Lord will give us wisdom and grace to walk circumspectly, in the midst of this crooked and perverse generation. Dear brethren and sisters, let us all endeavor to be burning as well as shining lights in the world: for it seems to shine clearer and clearer still, that the day is at hand, let us therefore watch and be sober. Is our trust in the living God? then we have nothing to fear though all the world should rise up against us. Yours in Christian love. JESSE DORCAS. Sandusky Co. O., Dec. 18th, 1854.